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• branch — branch; branch·less; branch·let; ca·du·ci·branch; di·branch; dis·branch; em·branch·ment; fo·lio·branch; hemi·branch; hol·o·branch; in·ter·branch; mal·e·branch·ism; mal·e·branch·ist; mar·si·po·branch; pe·ren·ni·branch; pleu·ro·branch; podo·branch; …   English syllables

• branch — [[t]bræntʃ, brɑntʃ[/t]] n. 1) bot a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant 2) a limb, offshoot, or ramification of any main stem: the branches of a deer s antlers[/ex] 3) any member or part of a body or… …   From formal English to slang

• Branch and cut — (sometimes written as branch and cut ) is a method of combinatorial optimization for solving integer linear programs, that is, linear programming problems where some or all the unknowns are restricted to integer values. The method is a hybrid of… …   Wikipedia

• Branch predication — is a strategy in computer architecture design for mitigating the costs usually associated with conditional branches, particularly branches to short sections of code. It does this by allowing each instruction to conditionally either perform an… …   Wikipedia

• Less-lethal weapon — Less lethal weapons, less than lethal weapons, non lethal weapons, non deadly weapons, or, more recently, compliance weapons are weapons intended to be unlikely to kill or to cause great bodily injury to a living target. In the past, police (or… …   Wikipedia

• Branch plant economy — is a term used to describe the phenomenon of United States companies building factories (branch plants) in Canada, primarily to sell products in the Canadian market. In the period between the American Civil War (early 1860s) and World War I, U.S …   Wikipedia

• Branch predictor — In computer architecture, a branch predictor is the part of a processor that determines whether a conditional branch in the instruction flow of a program is likely to be taken or not. This is called branch prediction. Branch predictors are… …   Wikipedia

• branch — branch1 W2S1 [bra:ntʃ US bræntʃ] n ↑branch, ↑leaves, ↑trunk ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(of a tree)¦ 2¦(of a business/shop/company etc)¦ 3¦(of government)¦ 4¦(of a subject)¦ 5¦(of a family)¦ 6¦(of a river/road etc)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Dat …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Branch (computer science) — For other uses, see Branch (disambiguation). A branch is sequence of code in a computer program which is conditionally executed depending on whether the flow of control is altered or not (at the branching point). The term can be used when… …   Wikipedia

• branch — 1 noun (C) 1 ON A TREE a part of a tree that grows outwards from the trunk (=stem) and that has leaves, fruit, or smaller branches growing from it: a fallen tree trunk 2 IN A LOCAL AREA a shop, office etc in a particular area that is part of a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English